Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final goal could well be the turning of advisorial into tutorial work. This is particularly feasible where both adviser and advisee are interested in the same field. Along with the transformation would go the extension of tutorial to Group IV Freshmen, so that as Sophomores the majority of the class might be on the road to honors. Such schemes seem like dreams, but from the value of the reforms already instituted by Dean Leighton they may some day prove realities...
Author Mumford's analysis of the present pathology of metropolitan culture ticks it all off, from the paranoia of the ruling class to the servility of the crowd: "A million cowards upon whose blank minds the leader writes: Bravery." But he does not gloat over the threatened exhaustion of the city or its extinction in war. There are in society powerful mutations of thought and art pointing to a healthy future, and though "it needs a terrific exertion of social force to overcome the inertia, to alter the direction of movement," Author Mumford throws his weight with them...
...outline to her his ideas for a workers' paper. Of Editor Maurin Editor Day says: "Peter is only doing what the great St. Peter called for - working for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth." Patron of the Catholic Worker is St. Joseph, the working-class husband of Christ's Mother. A statue of him stands in the window of the Catholic Worker headquarters on Manhattan's dirty lower east side. Miss Day, Mr. Maurin and a dozen others live in this "House of Hospitality," along with some 40 indigent "guests." Every morning they...
...along U. S. highways travelers sometimes see a dozen huge trucks parked around a filling station or a roadside restaurant, the drivers sleeping in their cabs, drinking coffee or talking shop. If they listen to these men, they can hear stories of the true nomads of the American working class-of drivers who virtually live in their trucks, drive 30 hours without sleep, travel the roads for weeks without getting to bed. Last week a 29-year-old California truck driver summoned up some of this strange nocturnal life on wheels in a brief first novel...
...scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner's, Esquire. "She's a first-class prodder," says Author Bezzerides...